Forest vegetation (3.36351)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A forest with moss-covered trees, plants, and ferns, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Moss growing on trees (3.36401)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Moss growing trees, possibly in the Great Smoky Mountains. Several fern plants are visible in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Leaf prints: Ferns (3.34274)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An airbrushed nature print depicting outlines of layered fern leaves, created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
The Stylish House: 1941 (3.34278)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the mid-20th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- Don and Kay / and / Debby / and / Stockwell Stilwell Hamlet II / and Stockwell Stilwell Ophelia
- 1941 --- [sketch of a lamp with a potted plant]
- currants
- tuberous begonias
- ferns
- roses
- Japanese yew
- Japanese quince
- winter honeysuckle
- honey locusts
- winged Euonymus
- [sketches of two ornamental planters to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work [Vol. 2] (3.66952)
Date: 1890 – 1894Creator: Schneider, George, 1848-1917
Type: Book
Extent: 7 volumes : illustrations, color plates
The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work [Vol.6] (3.66956)
Date: 1890 – 1894Creator: Schneider, George, 1848-1917
Type: Book
Extent: 7 volumes : illustrations, color plates
The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work [Vol. 3] (3.66953)
Date: 1890 – 1894Creator: Schneider, George, 1848-1917
Type: Book
Extent: 7 volumes : illustrations, color plates
The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work [Vol. 4] (3.66954)
Date: 1890 – 1894Creator: Schneider, George, 1848-1917
Type: Book
Extent: 7 volumes : illustrations, color plates
The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work [Vol. 1] (3.66951)
Date: 1890 – 1894Creator: Schneider, George, 1848-1917
Type: Book
Extent: 7 volumes : illustrations, color plates
The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work [Vol. 5] (3.66955)
Date: 1890 – 1894Creator: Schneider, George, 1848-1917
Type: Book
Extent: 7 volumes : illustrations, color plates
Young ferns [graphic] / Clare Leighton. (3.26525)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, b&w 17 x 13 cm.
January Calendar (3.19467)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Calendar for the month of January consisting of five rows and seven columns depicting days and dates from Sunday through Saturday, the 1st through the 31st. Each square has a date plus illustration and text, some of which anticipates the coming Spring and some which show reminders of the past year.
Header: January
Text and illustrations, from top to bottom, left to right:
- (Friday, 1) [image of dogwood stems and buds] flowering dogwood is ready for Spring
- (Saturday, 2) [image of hemlock needles and cones] small cones drip from the hemlock tips -
- (Sunday, 3) [image of unidentified stems and fruit]
- (Monday, 4) [image of one chickadee and a birdhouse]
- (Tuesday, 5) [image of two chickadees and a birdhouse] chikca-dees stay to crack their seeds
- (Wednesday, 6) [image of evergreen needles and star magnolia stems and buds] star mag-nolia buds are pale against evergreens
- (Thursday, 7) [image of long-eared owl on branch of Norway spruce] long-eared owls look down from Norway spruce trees
- (Friday, 8) [image of 2 pellets on ground beneath evergreen branch] 2 pellets under an owl roost contain skeletons of 2 deer mice
- (Saturday, 9) [image of small animal bones on ground] when an owl pellet is pulled apart, evidence of sudden death is re-vealed
- (Sunday, 10) [image of euonymus stems and fruit] Euonymus still holds some of the "little hearts bursting with love"
- (Monday, 11) [image of birch stems, cones, and catkins] wind and birds have shattered birch cones but catkins are ready for Spring
- (Tuesday, 12) [image of zumi crabapple stems and fruit] Zumi crabs still hold their fruit
- (Wednesday, 13) [image of one cardinal and a birdhouse] the cardinal is back now that we have sunflower seeds again
- (Thursday, 14) [images of canker-worms on a dogwood twig] on a dogwood twig, canker worms are ready for Spring
- (Friday, 15) [images of evergreens and a hawthorn] hoar frost is on the hawthorns ---
- (Saturday, 16) [image of redbud stems, buds, and fruit] on red-bud, flower buds are ready for next Spring, and pods recall last Spring's flowers
- (Sunday, 17) [image of a bird on a tree branch]
- (Monday, 18) [image of sycamore trunks and branches] sycamore bark
- (Tuesday, 19) [image of trees and a trail] evergreen trail
- (Wednesday, 20) [image of rhododendron stems and leaves] Rhododendron leaves pointing down say it's COLD!
- (Thursday, 21) [image of a white Oak] white oaks hold last summer's leaves on lower branches
- (Friday, 22) [image of a Norway spruce] Norway spruce holds long cones
- (Saturday, 23) [image of pixie-cup lichens through a magnifying glass] there are Pixie-cup lichens in the spruce plot
- (Sunday, 24) [image of two ostrich ferns] the fertile fronds of ostrich fern stand stiff and dark
- (Monday, 25) [image of American cranberry-bush stems and fruit] high-bush cranberry wears puffs of snow
- (Tuesday, 26) [image of winter wren in brush] the winter wren weaves through low brush
- (Wednesday, 27) [image of hazel stems and catkins] hazel catkins feel softer
- (Thursday, 28) [image of vernal witch-hazel and close-up of flower] vernal witch hazel is in bloom
- (Friday, 29) [image of one set of raccoon tracks] raccoon tracks are plentiful after a mild night
- (Saturday, 30) [image of two sets of deer mouse tracks with trail mark between] white-footed deer mouse hops past
- (Sunday, 31) [image of three sets of Junco bird tracks] juncoes hop too
Extent: 1 sheet
Fern and Ginkgo Leaves (3.19554)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Airbrushed nature print outlines of layered fern and ginkgo leaves.
Extent: 1 sheet
Botanical wall chart - Fern Reproduction (3.18606)
Date: 1957Creator: Jung, Koch, Quentell
Type: Print
Description:;;;
Extent: ;;;
Boston fern [graphic] / Joe Ardourel. (3.24919)
Date: 1967Creator: Ardourel, Joe, 1931-
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : woodcut image 81 x 53 cm., on sheet 93 x 62 cm.
Fern leaves / KEB. (3.29268)
Date: 1978Creator: Boydston, Kay.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : art reproduction, color 44 x 28 cm.
Grouping of flowers, fruits and ferns / L.M. Gunthart. (3.30243)
Date: 1984Creator: Günthart, Lotte, 1914-
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 art reproduction : granolitho, color 25 x 20 cm.
Wood duck (male) and ferns in water [graphic] / N Kolar. (3.24552)
Date: 1992Creator: Kolar, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 9 x 14 cm., on sheet 14 x 28 cm.
Phyllitis scolopendrium [graphic] / G Brender à Brandis. (3.25295)
Date: 2000Creator: Brender à Brandis, Gerard William
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, b&w image 8 x 11 cm., on sheet 15 x 21 cm.
Tulips, rose, anemones, ferns wallpaper design (3.31477)
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : gouache, color 59 x 45 cm.